Captain America: Super Soldier

"You know, it's kind of hard to trust someone when you don't know who that someone really is."

The subject of this article has been deemed non-canon because it contradicts the established movie continuity of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and thus should not be taken as a part of the "real" MCU world.

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Prologue Trailer

On a battlefield, Captain America charges towards an oncoming tank and dismantles it with his shield. A large battalion of soldiers and another tank appear on the horizon, and Rogers charges them head on, deflecting their attacks with his shield and attacking them with his exhanced combat skills. Once he defeats them, he is fired at by three Scorchers. He blocks their attack with his shield until Bucky Barnes and Dum Dum Dugan come to his aid and the three of them rally against oncoming HYDRA troops.

At Castle Zemo, Arnim Zola and Baron Wolfgang von Strucker observe the battle on a screen. Strucker informs Zola that the mission has been accomplished and that they no longer need to concern themselves with finding Rogers, as he will be coming to them. The Red Skull is pleased to hear this news.[1]

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Come and See

Stand Alone Together

The Flemish Farm

The Wooden Horse

Secret Journey

The Big Red One

Camus and the Fly

Icarus and Daedalus

To Have and Have Not

The Longest Yard

Keep Your Powder Dry

They Were Expendable

Red Ball Express

The Small Back Room

Hell is for Heroes

When Trumpets Fade

Church on Time

The First of the Few

Went the Day Well?

Plot

The game begins in France in 1944. The two U.S. soldiers are attacked by HYDRA forces. Captain America arrives to save them and manages to fend them off before contacting Howard Stark with regards to the new threat.

While in communication with Peggy Carter, Captain America learns that the munitions recovered from the battle came from the mountains of Bavaria based on the rare metal used. Captain America is briefed on Project Master Man and how Dr. Arnim Zola has unlocked the secrets of the human genome as one step towards immortality. He drops down in a village near the castle and disables anti-air forces so that the Invaders can enter the village. He then proceeds towards the armory in order to destroy the weapons before they are sold to the Nazis.

Having reported to Peggy that the Invaders are clear to drop, James Montgomery Falsworth questions whether all the guns are destroyed just as a radio dish and a hidden cannon emerge which Captain America identifies as more of Arnim Zola's dangerous machines. Unable to reach the cannon in time, he heads to the building housing the radio dish, encountering more and more of HYDRA led by Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. Captain America plants charges along the steel support beams of the radio dish tower to destroy it when Strucker intercepts Captain America, engaging in a fist fight. The radio dish is destroyed, but the cannon still hits one of the wings of the plane carrying the Invaders. Fortunately, they all parachute out in time. Strucker surprises Captain America and manages to knock him unconscious as they both fall from the exploding tower.

Captain America is then taken to Zola's lab by Iron Cross and sees Madame Hydra give orders for an analysis of Captain America's shield. After a brief talk of how his blood was taken, Zola shows his new project involving more test subjects containing the Super Soldier Serum from the Captain's blood. Zola "allowed" the Captain to live only to study Captain America's skills. He shortly breaks free and proceeds through the base to destroy the samples of Zola's experiments for an army of Super Soldiers, dispatching Hydra troops and making his way to a radio to contact Peggy Carter. He learns that some of his friends are being held near his present location. Captain America recovers his gear and proceeds to free Bucky Barnes, who informs him of other P.O.W.s in the base, giving Captain America a radio communicator to keep in touch while Bucky gets them to a train. As he makes his way to rescue Dum Dum Dugan and Falsworth, Zola's experimental Super Soldiers escape.

Captain America manages to find Dugan strapped to an examination bed in the middle of a brawl with Hydra forces. After freeing him, he pursues Madam Hydra who has taken Falsworth. He catches up to her and in the exchange, Madam Hydra's face is burned when Captain America throws the shield at a munitions pile. She flees, but he does not follow, instead pursuing Red Skull, having just arrived with the Tesseract, intending to use it to activate the Sleeper. Captain America uses a train to enter Zola's special lab where he is building the Sleeper. Red Skull arrives wanting the upgraded Super Soldier serum Zola synthesized from the Captain's blood. Captain America follows and destroys the sample, enraging Red Skull who orders Iron Cross to kill him. Captain America defeats Iron Cross and pursues Skull, only for the Sleeper to awake and crumble the lab. Zola escapes and activates a robot body for a later use. Captain America awakens and finds a map of his location, using it to locate Falsworth.

Having finally located Falsworth, Zola's robot arrives and attempts to kill Captain America. After defeating the Zola Bot, he frees Falsworth as Zola's voice is heard taunting them. Falsworth reveals that something big is underground that not even the planes can stop. Captain America states that he will go down below to stop the weapon while the others try to stop it with mortars and air strikes. He also states that when the evacuation plane comes, they should meet up with it, with or without him.

Captain America makes his way to the courtyard to confront the Sleeper which shoots down one of the airplanes. With Dugan's help, he manages to destroy the Sleeper. Upon escaping the exploding castle, Captain America rendezvous with Bucky, Dugan, and Falsworth.

In the post-credit, Arnim Zola unplugs from his defeated Zola Bots. Red Skull orders him to get back to work, stating that they will be seeing Captain America again soon enough.

Differences Between Consoles

The Nintendo DS and Wii versions contain several differences from the versions on other consoles.

Heinrich Zemo directly communicates with Captain America through a radio and offers to help him rescue the Howling Commandos on the condition that Rogers recovers his family heirlooms. In other version, Zemo's voice is only heard when reading his diaries.

The Sleeper is not featured in the Wii version. Instead, the final boss is a giant Zola Bot.

Captain America is not captured with the other Howling Commandos in the Nintendo DS version.

In the Nintendo DS version, Iron Cross speaks English, while in other versions he only speaks German.

The Nintendo DS version ends with the Red Skull and Arnim Zola escaping on a plane and a reveal that Captain America is hiding on the tail.

Reception

The game has received mixed reviews upon release, with review aggregation site Metacritic giving the Xbox 360 version an average score of 60/100, the PlayStation 3 a 61/100, and the Wii a 57/100. IGN gave the game a 5/10.[16] GameSpot gave 6.5/10. Some reviews were generally positive with G4 and X-Play giving the game a 4/5, offering praise for rising above recent comic book adaptations like Thor: God of Thunder and Iron Man 2. The UK's Official PlayStation Magazine gave the game 7 out of 10, praising the combat and general tone of the game but criticizing elements of the presentation and reliance on 'Quick Time Events'.

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Wolfgang von Strucker was born into a Prussian noble family. Eventually acquiring the title of Baron, he joined HYDRA, the deep science division of the Nazi Schutzstaffel led by the infamous Johann Schmidt, during the rise of Nazism in Germany. Ambitious, arrogant and harboring a particular distaste for the lower-class, Strucker quickly rose through HYDRA, becoming proficient in both combat and tactics.

As World War II broke out, Strucker participated in the Nazi conquest of Europe, for which he was awarded with the Iron Cross First Class. Ruthless, cunning, and savage to his enemies, he was a strong and capable leader. He also became involved in Project Master Man, with the HYDRA documents intercepted by the Allied Strategic Scientific Reserve suggesting that he was pursuing development of advanced weaponry known as the “Satan Claw” for his personal use.

In 1944, in the mountains of Bavaria, Captain America encountered him in a tower where a radio dish controlling a powerful cannon was located. Rogers engaged Strucker in combat and after a deadly battle, managed to defeat him. However, the cannon lost control after the radio dish was destroyed and shot down the aircraft transporting the Invaders and, after they bailed out, the plane headed straight for the tower Strucker and Rogers were in. Strucker, in a last ditch attempt to take down Rogers, charged at him which sent both Rogers and Strucker flying off as the plane destroyed their battleground. As Rogers and Strucker free-fell off the tower, Strucker managed to knock out Rogers, and he was last seen laying on the ground unconscious. Later one of the HYDRA personnel said that his recovery would take months.[5]

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"Attention all security staff, this is Madame Hydra! It seems my little pets are escaping their pens. All long-range units converge on the eastern rail bridge. The rest of you... KILL THE SUPER SOLDIER!"

―Madame Hydra[src]

Ophelia Sarkissian, better known as Madame Hydra, was an officer of HYDRA during World War II.

HYDRA has a longstanding tradition of naming the highest-ranking female officer in its organization Madame Hydra. The current Madame Hydra is respected and feared as a ruthless fighter. First found by Arnim Zola, the HYDRA doctor was impressed by Madame Hydra's brutality and her expertise in poisons, torture and interrogation. Slightly enamored with the woman, Zola put forward the idea of advancing the woman in rank to the level of Madame Hydra, and once she ascended to the title, she proved to be one of Red Skull's most loyal lieutenants. In 1944, he called her with the rest of HYDRA leadership to join him in Castle Zemo, where she thoroughly disgusted Baron Heinrich Zemo, who glibly commented in his journals that any of the baronesses of the past would faint immediately upon the very sight of her.

Following Captain America's defeat of Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, he was ambushed and captured by the mechanical Iron Cross and taken to the dungeon complex beneath Castle Zemo. While he was blacked out, Zola took a sample of Rogers' blood to recreate the Super Soldier Serum, before leaving the Captain himself in the custody of the new Warden of the dungeons - Madame Hydra. Hydra roughly abused Rogers, though Zola made it explicit that she was not to kill him yet, and after she restrained him she took the time to mockingly reveal that she had kidnapped his friends James Montgomery Falsworth, Bucky Barnes and Dum Dum Dugan of the Howling Commandos and that Zola did not object if she broke them. Breaking free of the restraints and escaping his cell, Rogers rescued Bucky and prepared a massive prison riot, infuriating Madame Hydra and freeing the POWs who served as her "test subjects". Once Bucky escaped Castle Zola with a train loaded with the POWs, Rogers went to rescue Dugan, but Zola's Screamers escaped their confinement and Madame Hydra ordered her troops to leave Dugan behind as bait while she escaped with Falsworth. Rogers fought his way through the Screamers and rescued Dugan, at which point the two split up with Roger pursuing Hydra before she could kill or do something even worse to Falsworth. Rogers found Hydra holding Falsworth prisoner and Dugan shot down her bodyguards, forcing her to retreat inside.

Pursuing Madame Hydra across the castle, Rogers eventually cornered her in Zemo's Ballroom. She used smoke bombs to disguise her reinforcements from Rogers, and fired at him with her custom machine pistols from a ledge far away from him. However, Rogers managed to defeat her reinforcements and use his vibranium shield to deflect the bullets back at her, forcing her to flee. Rogers caught her and the two fought hand to hand, where he proved to be superior - before finally deflecting her bullets past her, triggering a massive explosion behind her. The blast horribly scarred half her face, but she declined Rogers' offer to get her the medical help she needed, claiming her scars were a badge of honor and escaping on an aircraft outside. While she escaped Castle Zemo, her final words with the Captain revealed that her Commander, the Red Skull, would be on his way to the castle soon. While her fate after the battle is currently unknown, the consequences of her actions continued to haunt Rogers for the rest of his mission in Castle Zemo - and almost leading to Falsworth being transformed into a mind-controlled super soldier to use as an assassin for the nefarious purposes of Zola.[5]

Captain America: Super Soldier

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"Have you seen Frederick lately?""No. I heard that after that incident with the gasoline, he had to answer to the Baron.""Do you think he was sent to the dungeon?""That would be a mercy compared to the Baron's Satan Claw. I've seen him flay the flesh from men's faces with it. Like strips of bacon..."

He was stationed at Castle Zemo during its occupation by HYDRA forces in 1944. He was involved in an incident with some gasoline, for which he had to answer Baron Wolfgang von Strucker. He was not seen again after this and his comrades began to speculate over his fate. #Dieter wondered if he had been sent to the castle dungeon, while another believed that something even worse had befallen him; that Strucker had tortured and perhaps killed Frederick with his Satan Claw.[5]

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"Have you seen #Frederick lately?""No. I heard that after that incident with the gasoline, he had to answer to the Baron.""Do you think he was sent to the dungeon?""That would be a mercy compared to the Baron's Satan Claw. I've seen him flay the flesh from men's faces with it. Like strips of bacon...""You'll do more than see it if we make any errors. Stop clucking like an old woman and get back to work.""O-of course, Dieter. You're right."

He was stationed at Castle Zemo during its occupation by HYDRA forces in 1944. He and his comrades speculated over the fate of #Frederick following his disappearance after answering to Baron Wolfgang von Strucker over an incident involving gasoline. Dieter wondered if he had been sent to the dungeon, while another believed that Strucker had tortured and possibly killed Frederick with his Satan Claw. Dieter reminded them that they would all be subjected to the Claw if they made any errors and insisted that they get back to work, which the others complied with. Shortly afterwards, they were attacked and easily defeated by Captain America.[5]

He was stationed at Castle Zemo during its occupation by HYDRA forces in 1944. He and his comrades received an alert from Baron Wolfgang von Strucker that an intruder had arrived on the castle grounds and needed to be dealt with. As they searched for the intruder, they speculated over how he could have entered the vicinity, as they saw no parachute. Erik suggested that perhaps it was Captain America, leading one of his comrades to call him naïve, stating that Captain America was nothing but a myth and a propaganda tool. They soon learned just how real Captain America was when he attacked and easily defeated them.[5]